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If you happen to be in Los Angeles with some houseplants that would enjoy a vacation at the Hammer Museum, the good folks at Machine Project have something special for them, starting on Saturday July 31st.

You can drop off your houseplants for a month-long vacation which includes a variety of musical performances, readings, psychic healings and "no humans allowed" midnight Plant Pornography screening. You can also call into the museum and talk to the plants over a loudspeaker.

The good folks at Borderlands Science Research Foundation have relaunched their web presence with a nice collection of modernized websites. They have also gotten into the social networking sphere with Facebook, Twitter and a channel on Vimeo which features a number of videos about Duncan and the studio.

Scientists have simulated the sounds set to be made by sub-atomic particles such as the Higgs boson when they are produced at the Large Hadron Collider.

Their aim is to develop a means for physicists at Cern to "listen to the data" and pick out the Higgs particle if and when they finally detect it.

Dr Lily Asquith modelled data from the giant Atlas experiment at the LHC.

She worked with sound engineers to convert data expected from collisions at the LHC into sounds.

If the energy is close to you, you will hear a low pitch and if it's further away you hear a higher pitch, the particle physicist told BBC News. If it's lots of energy it will be louder and if it's just a bit of energy it will be quieter.